Sharp County record., 1887-10-20
noxANsAs STATE NEWS.

years ,'uI nuP =, that city few nights ago
hock' uieu .II Known throughout the oVaVe
ne ~o9 nwer wo of much probity' ana MS u0'
TviII he greatly regretted, D,o5os in
D,se %ti Sneed, who killed Jacob fnoueS ~
DINE onoo ntr in 1884 was captured
ssw davs ago in Lafayet1e CvI .u ~ little
and was returned to the jan ~ oficer
Doc pnct Sneed says he has seen oad "n since
hab;nd every bush or tence n0 p"''O
.hs deed was committed roward
sAo Genornor Hughes has otferea 80" of
S,cO for the arrest and convicClon ~
OF ~ ortias .ja who robbed the Yell county
tne pai., por,s cafe at Danville, January o
.aes .aeaS nartv in Texas offered to furnlSn I-So
ioos 70 convict the robbers tor @'VO'
ssieo" tbouobt the robbers have peeh o,
IL Is 'n o~d will soon be in the sheriffs
custody. ,o uos convicted
4 xsol,;no whisky without license III oou
Z County and fined 1,4OO IN AuSusV,
,sse and who has been paying MS me uy
~ ;oa On the county farm, has peeh par
doned by the Governor ln0 Nl'
remitted, but no coSts' e,o of S9O0
Tbe Governor has remitted nne VI F-oV
.ssessed against IL named D. NJ 1 a. No.
IF Carrollton, Carroll County, coh'io.eu e,o
IF destroving an insulator on tne I TIle
hono line of the Eureka Springs @ mar
ir.;son Company. From the facts IN 'ne
a.so and from a petition numerously
s;rned together with the jury that trled
she case and several county officers, ana
- ~ con- sideration of the youth OF Parker
IN ~ nnnJ character of his aged father,
Who is a minister, the Governor renlV'eu
tha fine but not the costs of the trial.
COTTON is being marketed at hVely
rste VET MANY farmers are "holding Dack'
mis- is a very good time to "hold oacK,
as the prices can't 60 much lower ana
there is a probability of rise.
Tbo assessors books of Clay County
show 2,O97 persons liable to taxatlon' "lVn
total valuation of personal properly
Ss56, ,627, with an increase OF So9,oo' over
1886. ,s
A man named Ferguson was found dead
on the roadside, between the villages Oh
Honduras and Calhoun in Columbia Coun,
~. recently. Appoplexy was the cause OF
his death.
At a recent meeting Of the Clay County
3 Wheel, a prohibition plank was maze
part of the platform by vote OF eleven 10
three.
Joe Balentine, deputy city marshal OF
Alma, has been found guilty of man
slaughter and sent to the penitentiary Tor
two years.
Several legal lights of Little Rock, whose
assessments were raised by the Board OF
Equalization, will contest the constltu-
tionality of that board
Governor Hughes has appointed the FOL-
lowing delegates to represent Arkansas
at the Western Waterways convention,
which meets in Memphis, October 20, viz.
Major John D. Adams, delegate from the
State Major John j. Horner,
Helena: General D. H. Reynolds, Lake
Village; James Murphy, Arkansas City;
Hon. W. F. Slemmons, Monticello; Robert
Craig, Major Jas. H. Robinson, Lake Viii
Iage; Dir. C. NJ. Taylor, South Bend; Major
J. 7. w. Tillar, Tillar station; James A.
Gibson, De Witt; Colonel j. P. Eagle,
Lonoke NJ. L. Bell, j. NJ Hudson, w. ?.
Grace, Pine Bluff; Parker C. Evan,
Clarendon; Major Sam L. Block, VIM. M.
Mays, Sam R. Poynter, Indian Bay; Cap
tain John w. Hesse, Lotour; Hon. K. j.
Crttendon, DR.. McGavock, Mr.. Barton,
Marion; DR.. Geo. B. Peters, B. D. McCul-
lough, Colonel j. NJ. Hewitt, Mariana;
Colonel Allen Polk, DR.. H. M. Grant,
Hon. P. o. Thweatt, Helena; Mr.. Edring-
ton, Memphis; Major William II.
Govan, Duncan; Hon. Fred Kramer,
Geo. H. Sanders, L. c. Balch, j. E.
Williams, and Captain J. R. Miller, Little
Rock; Hon. John B. Driver, Osceola;
Hons. John Parham, L. P. Featherstone,
st, Francis County; Messrs. Norton, j.
w. Wynne, Geo. Taylor and Colonel Van
b. lizard, Forrest City; John W. Killough,
j. W. Levesque, Vanndale; E. F. Brown,
VIM. F. Cate, JoneSboro; Ben f. Crowley,
Hon. L. L. Mack, Gainesville. These ap.
pointments complete the list with the ex-
ception of a few more delegates from
Mississippi County.
Yell County proposes to be we'll repre-
sented at the Little Rock Exposition.
Post-offi have been discontinued
at Fenter, Grant County, mail to Malvern,
and at Gum Springs, Cleveland County,
mail to Rison.
Sheriff Dare of Grant County went to
Little Rock few days ago and took Dink
Sneed to Grant County for trial.
j. A. Barney, while working at Shoup's
# gin, three miles north of Dardenelle, a
few days ago, was caught by belt and
instantly killed, his skull being broken.
The business house of N. Hecht, of Tex.
arkana, has been closed by attachment in
behalf of G. L. Blum of Galveston, and H.
Munzeshemer, of New York, on account
of security draft due and called for by a
Texarkana bank not being met at the call.
Morrillton has shipped over 1900 bales of
cotton this season.
The contract for the erection of the Epis.
copal Church edifce at Morrilton has been
let, and the building will be pushed for
ward.
The Quorum Court of Conway County, at
recent session in Morrillton, levied the
following tax: State five mills; county,
general, five mills, and town of Morrillton,
two mills. Most of the school districts of
the county levied five.mll school tax.
young woman with a nine.months,.
old baby was found on the streets of Lit
tle Rock at a late hour few nights ago,
Frustrated with disease and in destitute
and pitiable condition. She was carried
to police headquarters for the night. She
claims to be Miss Tenne Hickman and
says she is twenty-three years old and
nails from Stewart County, Tenn, from
whence she went to Arkadelphia to hunt
s. relative. Failing to find her relative